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The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") [14] [15] is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
The .50 caliber machine gun was replaced with a twin machine gun cupola or an M139 20 mm autocannon. [12] This test bed saw limited service in Vietnam, from 1967 to 1972, [13] where it received positive feedback from troops. [14] [15] The XM701 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle (MICV-65), pilot number 4, 1965
A M2 Bradley configured for swimming, Fort Benning, June 1983. The M2 was the basic production model, designed to carry 10 person teams, first fielded in 1981. [56] The M2 can be identified by its standard TOW missile system, steel laminate armor, and 500 horsepower (370 kW) Cummins VT903 engine with HMPT-500 hydromechanical transmission. Basic ...
Its armor is highly sophisticated and its armaments include a 120 mm XM25 smooth-bore cannon and a .50-caliber M2 machine gun. It's expected to ... a 25 mm chain gun and a 7.62 mm machine gun.
All branches of the U.S. Armed Forces still use the heavy machine gun, which has remained largely unchanged in both appearance and function since World War I. Why the M2 Browning Has Been the U.S ...
All of the various .30 M2 models saw service in the early stages of World War II, but were phased out beginning in 1943, as hand-trained rifle-caliber defensive machine guns became obsolete for air warfare (the .50 in/12.7 mm AN/M2 Browning and 20 mm AN/M2 automatic cannon had replaced the .30 in as offensive air armament as well). The .30 in ...
The M2's features included an unusually large number of machine guns, bullet deflector plates, and sloped armor on the hull front (glacis plate). The main armament was a 37 mm (1.5 in) gun, with 32 mm (1.3 in) armor; the M2A1 had a 51 mm (2.0 in) gun mantlet .
Assistant gunner Benjamin Wolff loads an M2 machine gun Tuesday, May 7, 2024, during an exercise on the new machine gun range at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center. Why it was ...